After sharing their “Heartbeat” earlier this year, nervy outfit Carpool have made their new four-song set CC available online. They are an outfit who work best when they are zooming ahead without any hesitation, which they do three out of four times here (alas, “The Best” is most certainly not). And the shorter they get,…
New music from Metoronori always offers a chance to dip away for a bit, sneak off into a cozy world and get your bearings back from the hum-drum of, well, the real world. Her latest two song set, via Virgin Babylon Records, continues the tour of her just-off world, one where tape runs backwards for…
Lake Michigan used to be a solid indie-pop band, an outfit making skippy numbers glazed with plenty of melancholy, which is to say it was standard but quality stuff in a genre never lacking in artists within Japan. Well, the group has certainly changed in some ways, boasting a new name — Michiganized — and…
Shoegaze-leaning outfit Universe Nekoko (formerly written as Uchu Nekoko because we love our Japanese words at Make Believe Melodies) recently teamed up with singer-songwriter Tsvaci for an achingly sweet song called “Online Love.” “Down In The DM” this isn’t — whatever musings about tech-guided romance this song ponders on aren’t really clear, as it is…
Sometimes you just really need to sink down into a zippy guitar line and some indie-pop vocals. The answer, as it always is, is just log off, but wow can keeping up with music news sure can make you question what you’ve devoted a large chunk of your life to, especially when an awards show…